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Since Amália performs only infrequently in Portugal, fado has lately fallen into a state of flux. Many of the old fado taverns, looking for the tourist dollar, are pushing pop fado, an attempt to internationalize the art by adding drums and clarinet to the traditional guitar accompaniment. Its chief exponent is sunny Maria da Fe, 24, who sings such classics as It's as Empty and Cold as My Heart to a sizzling jazz beat. Pop fado has also given rise to such variations as the upbeat "new-look fado" and "fado blues." And at the University...
Concerto Grosso, first prize winner in the Festival's international competition for new music, begins with a lengthy, cello solo, working complex variations of a four-note theme, builds to a climax with the drums thundering and a clarinet shrieking above a surging mass of sound. Tishchenko does not fall victim to the rhythmic fecklessness that plagues so many of the post-Webernists. Even his quiet passages have a discernible pulse, and the faster movements bristle with a tough rhythmic muscularity...
...saying as he went: "Then you are all right." While Porterfield's answer may have been the safe one, he had considerable basis for his judgment, since he has pursued music for 18 years, arranged and composed for his own band at Yale, and still plays a clear clarinet...
...father Ferdinando was a village Vivaldi who blew a mean clarinet- and all the cash he could get his hands on. He had improvidently wed a gifted but relatively impecunious pianist who promptly presented him with a son. At three, Ferruccio was playing scales. At six, he was forced to practice four hours at a stretch by a father determined to produce a moneymaking prodigy. At seven, he made his debut in Trieste, and for the rest of his life, with brief intermissions, he was chained to the concert circuit like a monkey to a street organ. Father had expensive...
...Orchestra of America. In the semifinals, which none of a ten-man U.S. contingent was able to reach, the remaining 13 candidates were put through a musical obstacle course: they had to conduct the first movement of Berlioz' Symphonic Fantastique, Debussy's First Rhapsody for clarinet and piano, a recitative and aria from Beethoven's Fidelio, and a surprise modern piece-Andre Previn's Overture to a Comedy-for which they were given only 30 minutes to prepare. Said Concertmaster Gabriel Banat: "It was a harrowing experience for them and a merry-go-round...